Gothic Dissections in Film and Literature: The Body in Parts 1st Edition by Ian 1137303581 9781137303585

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• ISBN 10: 1137303581
• ISBN 13: 9781137303585
• Author: Ian

This is the first book-length study to systematically and theoretically analyse the use and representation of individual body parts in Gothic fiction. Moving between filmic and literary texts and across the body—from the brain, hair and teeth, to hands, skin and the stomach—this book engages in unique readings by foregrounding a diversity of global representations. Building on scholarly work on the ‘Gothic body’ and ‘body horror’, Gothic Dissections in Film and Literature dissects the individual features that comprise the physical human corporeal form in its different functions. This very original and accessible study, which will appeal to a broad range of readers interested in the Gothic, centralises the use (and abuse) of limbs, organs, bones and appendages. It presents a set of unique global examinations; from Brazil, France and South Korea to name a few; that address the materiality of the Gothic body in depth in texts ranging from the nineteenth century to the present; from Nikolai Gogol, Edgar Allan Poe, Roald Dahl and Chuck Palahniuk, to David Cronenberg, Freddy Krueger and The Greasy Strangler.

Table of contents:

Chapter 1 Introduction

Gothic Dilemmas

The Gothic Body

Bibliography

Chapter 2 The Brain

The Exposed Brain

Brain Experiments

Brain Power

Bibliography

Chapter 3 Head and Face

Beheadings

The Dicephalous

The Expanded Head

The Masked Face

Bibliography

Chapter 4 Eyes

Wide-Eyed

Blinded

Displacement

Bibliography

Chapter 5 Ears and Nose

Nasal Defects

Lost and Found

Transmogrification

The Invaded Body

Bibliography

Chapter 6 Teeth

Forced Extractions

Biting Teeth

Collecting Teeth

False Teeth

Bibliography

Chapter 7 The Tongue, Mouth and Lips

The Extended Tongue

Mouth Opened Wide

Lips SealedLips Parted

The Disembodied Voice

Bibliography

Chapter 8 Hair and Fingernails

Uncontrollable Hair

Beastliness

Clawish Hands

Out of Sight

Bibliography

Chapter 9 Hands

Severed Hands

Compulsive Hands

Alternative Hands

Mummified Hands

Bibliography

Chapter 10 Feet and Limbs

Broken Limbs

Anatomical Loss

Replacement Limbs

Bibliography

Chapter 11 Bones

Unruly Bones

Unburied Bones

Objectified Bones

Uncanny Bones

Bibliography

Chapter 12 Skin

Skin Deep

Flaying

Modification

Bibliography

Chapter 13 The Heart

The Beating Heart

The Extracted Heart

Mad Science

Heart Transplants

Bibliography

Chapter 14 Genitalia

Castration

Augmented Sexuality

Extremities

Bibliography

Chapter 15 The Uterus

The Abnormal Womb

Monstrous Births

Possession

The Protective Womb

Bibliography

Chapter 16 The Stomach, Intestines and the Anus

Food Processing and the Force-Fed Body

The Unzipped Body

Cheek to Cheek: The Body Remodelled

The Gluttonous Body

From the Bottom

Bibliography

Chapter 17 Epilogue

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